Will Time Capsule Back up windows

I have both an Apple MacBook and a Windows 7 computer and I was wondering if I could run backup on both computers.

You can backup to TC.. but TM is mac only software.. you will need a PC backup software .. thousands of them available .. get something that does easy incremental backups..
Getting win7 access to the TC can be tricky. See how that goes first.
And mixing backups from different sources you might be better using disk image.
http://pondini.org/TM/TCQ3.html

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Will the new time capsule back up Windows on an iMac running Parallels Desktop?

Will the new time capsule back up Windows on an iMac running Parallels Desktop?

Windows home version MSBackup, cannot backup to network drives.
That was a little bonus from Bill for those who didn't fork out for Pro or Ultimate.
Like people with home versions would never need to backup to network drives.. oh no.. never!!
You need to mount the hard disk in windows for it to work.
It will help a lot if you load the airport utility for windows into your windows OS.
http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1547
Open windows explorer and type the network address of the TC.
\\TCname.local (where TCname is the correct network name of the TC).
The TC should have all names that are windows compatible.. ie
Fred Blog's Airport Time Capsule is just wrong. It is too long, it has spaces and it has apostrophe which is illegal.
A good name for the TC is TC
The default hard disk share name of data is fine. It should not be Time Capsule or anything again that is over long .. has spaces or is otherwise incompatible with windows.
A good name for the TC wifi is TCwifi
Then you can mount it \\TC
typing that directly into the address bar of windows explorer.
There are still issues with windows naturally and running in parallels I have no idea what other issues might come up.
Tell me if you have issues.. but you will need most likely to check the network.
Open a command window and ping the TC by name and by IP address. If IP address works just mount by IP.
\\10.0.1.1 for example .. and that is the default TC IP address when in router mode.
If you still cannot access the TC my recommendation is to use a USB drive and use that.. it is 10x easier and more reliable than mixing Mac and windows backups on the TC.

Will time capsule back up an external hard drive

Will time capsule back up an external hard drive?

Time Machine will backup the drive to the Time Capsule if it is formatted in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and it is connected directly to your Mac by USB or FireWire....and it is not "excluded" from backups in Time Machine Options.

Will Time Capsule back up IPhone/IPad?

Will Time Capsule back up IPhone/IPad?

Will Time Capsule back up IPhone/IPad?
The iPhone and iPad back up to iTunes on your Mac. Then, when your Mac backs up to the Time Capsule, the iOS backups are copied over as well.
Or
The iPhone and iPad can backup to iCloud
The iPhone and iPad cannot backup directly to the Time Capsule. See this Apple Support document for more details on backups.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4199

Will time capsule back up Sooloos Store Ones?

I have a Sooloos system with two Store One devices holding almost two terabytes of music. Can the Time Capsule back up Sooloos? I assume through iTunes? If so what about auto backup?

Time Capsule can do NOTHING..... it is a dumb hard disk inside a pretty much standard Airport Extreme Router.
It is a target for Time Machine.. all the smarts are in the computer and TM which does the backup.
BUT TM cannot backup network drives.
So neither TC or TM can do anything.. in and of themselves.
I have no idea what a Sooloos is but if it can backup itself to SMB or AFP target network disk, then it can work.. otherwise no.
Edit.. I did read up this basic review
http://www.meridian-audio.com/sooloos/pdfs/sound-vision.pdf
But I still don't know the networking abilities of the unit.
iTunes will not be able to backup a network drive either.. only if it is locally stored on the computer, then TM can back it up locally.. or perhaps you can get itunes to cloud store the material.. but 2TB is an awful lot to do that with.

Will Time Capsule back-up an external hard drive that is connected to it directly via USB?

I'm considering a macbook air, but I have ~200GB of music and photos that currently lives on another laptop (and is manually backed up to a 500GB ext. hard drive). Ideal set-up would be as follows:
1. MBA (128GB) with just the OS, applications and ~ 5GB of .doc, .xls, .pdf, etc.
2. The 500GB hard drive (loaded w/ music and jpegs' and permanently connected to Time Capsule so that I don't have to plug it into the MBA everytime I want to use music/jpegs)
3. Time capsule (constantly backing up the MBA and hard drive via time machine).
Does anybody know if this is possible (i.e. will the TC back up an external hard drive that is permanently attached to it, rather than attached to a Mac?)
Does anybody have other suggestions (without having to buy any more gear) for storage/back-up that don't require that I plug that external HD to a computer every time I want to access the data?

sixschlitzes wrote:
Does anybody know if this is possible (i.e. will the TC back up an external hard drive that is permanently attached to it,
No, sorry, Time Machine cannot back up from a network location.
Does anybody have other suggestions (without having to buy any more gear) for storage/back-up that don't require that I plug that external HD to a computer every time I want to access the data?
The 3rd-party apps CarbonCopyCloner and ChronoSync (and probably others) can back up from a network location.

Will Time Capsule back itself up?

Just curious if anyone knows if Time Capsule will back up its own contents. For example, if I want to house my iTunes music library on the Time Capsule hard drive, will it get backed up by Time Capsule itself?

cliffvk wrote:
But if he uses TC as a shared network drive to house his iTunes library (and not as a network TM backup drive) his library would only exist on the TC and won't be backed up anywhere, right? So how would he backup the iTunes library? Would he have to connect another external drive to back up the library on TC?
I'm wondering myself as I want to use the TC to set-up a centralized iTunes repository for our home network.
Yes. You would need a second drive to back-up the library. Personally, I don't think TC & TM are a true back-up system; instead, they simply handle version-control.
Like yourself, I plan on using TC as a centralized iTunes repository. In addition, I will add an external RAID NAS to handle true-incremental back-ups.

Will Time Machine Back Up Windows Partition?

Excuse my ignorance. If not is it possible to back up to the same external hard drive when I am on the windows side?

You are mixing up a couple of things here.
The TC drive cannot be partitioned without removing it.. did you do that?
If you partition it you must use a Mac disk utility and use the HFS+ ie standard Mac format. And GUID partition table not windows type.
You can select erase disk in the airport utility.. that will take the disk back to original format. No partitions. TC is deliberately not partitioned as it is not a media server.. it is a backup device for TM. Over time .. the disk will be filled with TM backups so you have a long history of file changes to your computer.
There is no media server in the TC.. it is merely disk storage.. you can serve files from it to a media device.. but the TC itself is dumb as dumb.
Now the actual format of the drive is irrelevant to the PC.. The TC offers SMB file services to the network. You can copy files to and from the TC as if it was a local disk without caring one iota about the format. The TC handles that .. it is not a local disk .. it is a network drive.
Although you cannot partition the TC. you can still copy files to it.. this does have implications for TM.. but as long as there is plenty of free space should not be a major issue.
You can create a disk image via the disk utility in a Mac.. and as stated you can create partitions if you do it on a Mac with the disk directly connected which means breaking warranty if any exists on the TC.

Will the Apple Time Capsule back up both Apple and Windows in a Virtual macine

Will Apple Time Capsule back up Windows as well as Apple data in a virtual machine with Parallels?

Windows home version MSBackup, cannot backup to network drives.
That was a little bonus from Bill for those who didn't fork out for Pro or Ultimate.
Like people with home versions would never need to backup to network drives.. oh no.. never!!
You need to mount the hard disk in windows for it to work.
It will help a lot if you load the airport utility for windows into your windows OS.
http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1547
Open windows explorer and type the network address of the TC.
\\TCname.local (where TCname is the correct network name of the TC).
The TC should have all names that are windows compatible.. ie
Fred Blog's Airport Time Capsule is just wrong. It is too long, it has spaces and it has apostrophe which is illegal.
A good name for the TC is TC
The default hard disk share name of data is fine. It should not be Time Capsule or anything again that is over long .. has spaces or is otherwise incompatible with windows.
A good name for the TC wifi is TCwifi
Then you can mount it \\TC
typing that directly into the address bar of windows explorer.
There are still issues with windows naturally and running in parallels I have no idea what other issues might come up.
Tell me if you have issues.. but you will need most likely to check the network.
Open a command window and ping the TC by name and by IP address. If IP address works just mount by IP.
\\10.0.1.1 for example .. and that is the default TC IP address when in router mode.
If you still cannot access the TC my recommendation is to use a USB drive and use that.. it is 10x easier and more reliable than mixing Mac and windows backups on the TC.

Can time capsule back everything including pictures?

Will Time Capsul back up my pictures also?

Why would it not?
It would be a useless backup if it failed to backup something as important as your pictures..
But it is Time Machine that is the backup program. Time Capsule is a dumb box getting the backup files.
iPhoto stores its library in strange and various ways according to version. So read up now how to restore.
http://pondini.org/TM/15.html
Also if this is an external drive you are talking about you need to make sure it is included in the TM backup.
TM cannot backup network drives.. so having no idea where you are storing this I can only point you to actually read about how Time Machine works.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html

Does time capsule work for windows

Will Time Capsule work on Windows computers?

Yes. It's just a network drive to Windoze. Once you find it browsing the network (assuming you named the worksapces riht, etc.), it will pop up on the list of network drives, and from there you can assign a drive letter to it and keep it auto-mounted.
However, with windoze 7 home, their new built-in 'backup' won't touch it, or use it in any way, because Micro$uck considers backup to network attached storage a 'premium feature' that mere home users shouldn't have access to.
However, any other backup software that isn't ******** will copy to the drive, if you assign a drive letter to it. Including 'xcopy /h /e /r /d /i /c /k /y D:\mystuff Z:\backup', assuming you mounted the Time Capsule as 'Z'.

HT1175 I am trying to setup my Time capsule via a ethernet cable as a back up for a new iMac. The on button on the time capsule set up window keeps failing to stay on. Any ideas what to do?

I am trying to setup my Time capsule via a ethernet cable as a back up for a new iMac. The on button on the time capsule set up window keeps failing to stay on. Any ideas what to do?

A PC can have more issues connecting than a Mac.
But it really should not matter.. so just try it in situ.. press and hold the reset.. once it starts up, it will return to default IP, 10.0.1.1 the PC should then be able to find it via the airport utility.
If not drag it over to the Mac and plug in there by ethernet.. or since it is a laptop, really should not be that difficult to drag the Laptop and plug it into the TC.
Important thing is to get access to the TC.
The Mac if it is running lion, then you MUST download and install 5.6 airport utility to do anything useful.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482

Will time capsule bacukup windows partition?

Will Time Capsule backup the whole disk to include any Windows software installed via Boot Camp?

You may be able to use the WinClone app to back up the BootCamp partition. I don't do Windoze, though, so there may be other apps as well.
If you decide to do that, your best bet may be to limit the size of the TM backups, or create a disk image on the Time Capsule, to "reserve" enough space on it for the BootCamp backups, as mixing Time Machine backups and other data on the TC's internal HD can cause conflicts. See #Q3 in Using Time Machine with a Time Capsule for details.

I like the idea of auto back-up for my new iMac, Ipad and PC Netbook, particularly if I can access all files and data stored on any device. But I have a Conceptronic router. Will Time Capsule work with this and how?

I like the idea of auto back-up for my new iMac, Ipad and PC Netbook, particularly if I can access all files and data stored on any device. But I have a Conceptronic router.
1. Will Time Capsule work with this and how?
2. Can my printer USB be plugged in and then shared between the devices?
3. Can I create a network and how?
4. What happend when a visitor logs onto my existing wireless router?
I'm new to Macs (well a returning user having started with Mac Plus!!) and not very technical. Any help / advice will be much appreciated.
Ray

The key to what you seem to want to do is to be able to get Apple's Time Capsule router to "join" the network that your Conceptronic router. I believe that works with some third-party routers, but I've never seen a list of those that work in such a configuration and I have no experience with Conceptronic equipment.
You might be better off with a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) device instead of a Time Capsule.

Will time capsule also back up external hard drives?

will time capsule also back up external hard drives?

Yes. If you're using Time Machine, open its preferences and ensure the drives aren't excluded; Time Machine can't back up drives in some formats, such as FAT32.
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